Congress to
EPA: Reverse
Proposed
Carbon
Emissions
Regulation
web posted
June 20, 2014Washington,
DC –84 Members
of Congress
signed onto a
letter drafted
by Congressman
Jeff Duncan
(SC-03) asking
the EPA to
rescind newly
proposed carbon
regulations,
citing the high
costs to
American
families and
damaging
economic impacts
of the misguided
regulation.

“These new
regulations will
hurt families
struggling to
make ends meet
the most, and
could do severe
damage to our
overall
economy,” Duncan
said about the
regulatory
guidance. “One
study found that
these new
regulations
would cost an
average family
of four over
$1,200 in income
annually by
2023, and
another found
similar
regulations
would cost the
economy 178,000
jobs each year
for fifteen
years. This
comes at the
worst possible
time when
families are
already
struggling to
deal with the
rising cost of
living.”

The letter also
delves into the
Constitutionality
of the EPA
issuing such a
regulation:

“We believe that
the authority to
limit carbon
emissions, even
if that were
actually a
necessity, rests
in neither the
Constitution nor
the Clean Air
Act but in the
true free market
of individual
choices made by
the American
people. When
Americans are
free to dream
and innovate –
not coerced by
regulators in
Washington who
will never have
exclusive
knowledge of
science or the
newest
technologies –
we believe they
will always find
cheaper,
cleaner, safer,
and more
efficient ways
to use and
produce energy.”